and what do lockheed martin the government of bahrain and the washington times all have in common they would have you believe in nothing but it's a lot more than you might think so what's really behind this secret partnership. good afternoon it is friday january thirteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you are watching our team let's start right now talking about private first class bradley manning the man accused of being the source of a major dump of classified documents to the whistle blowing website wiki leaks he's been recommended to move forward to face the most serious trial in the military out there a general court martial is pretrial hearing is wrapping up an investigating officer colonel paul munns a says all twenty two charges against private manning have also been recommended to be part of that trial now this is not really surprising news the odds have been stacked against private manning's defense team from day one this includes just two of the near fifty defense witnesses allowed by the military and by the way the prosecution was allowed a week a full week

complex northrop grumman and lockheed martin and on one hand and on the other hand there was this intense again a lobbying fight as think department with the u.s. mainstream media that was founder and president of the national security whistleblowers association symbol adman's. and then the government being in bed with the press to that special relationship it has with big pharma it is yet another relationship that shapes both politics and policy in washington today more americans die from prescription drugs than car accidents trucking data coming from the national center for health statistics and as art is more important i reports it's fair to pharmaceutical firms are prioritizing profit over people's lives. america is regarded as a country with a ravenous appetite for consumption today a widespread fondness for pharmaceuticals has turned the u.s. into a nation of pill poppers bipolar depression doesn't have to consume you here's me and here's my depression you know when you feel the weight of sadness you may feel exhausted hopeless and anxious according to the u.s. government anti-depre

lockheed martin, then northrop, boeing, you can see the list. when you look at that list, what can you tell us? >> some of those folks make hardware. some provide services. kbr does the logistic piece. they man the chow halls. they make airplanes and other sorts of stuff. boeing makes aerospace. they're on tap to make the next generation tanker. dinecorp does everything to maintaining airplanes to overseas taking care of things. these numbers are huge, right? this is huge business. the only thing i will say to counter the critics, and i am agnostic, i am not a critic or supporter. i just point to 9/11. what i used to say is you do not get nothing for your money. you get something. let's remind ourselves that on 9/110, the nation faced an unforeseen tragedy. three weeks later we were dropping bombs in and around kabul with planes fielded decades before. during the quiet years, we develop a capability that was leveraged at a time when the nation needed it. but just remember this money is not as lining the see of combat watching. >> i'm going to pl

ford is leading a push by commercial truck makers of talent the likes of lockheed martin corp. or general dynamics to replace military humvees with all-terrain vehicles of their own. contracts are worth $54 billion and the bidding opens january 20. home depot planning to hire thousands of seasonal workers. details in the next dollar. that's business news for now. linda bell reporting for abc 7 news from your. back to you. >> thank you. 4:36, 45 degrees. >> still to come, the marine corps is looking into disturbing allegations against some of its own. a video stirring up controversy. >> a wild night of weather in north carolina. we have a look at the damage from last night's storm. >> first another look at traffic and weather in our area. >> members of the national weather service will go to western north carolina today to determine if a tornado touched down by snipers. take a look. the apparent twister ripped through two towns and injured at least three people while damaging dozens of buildings. it nearly wiped out an entire wall home park. there's been wild weather all across

boeing, northrop grumman, and lockheed martin have warned that these cuts could mean a loss of hundredsthousands of u.s. jobs. >>> a developing story. new clues in the search for a sexual assault suspect. investigators have released a composite sketch we are about to show of the man attacked a woman as she drove near the verizon center with a toddler in the car. it happened last thursday. john gonzalez reports that the unsolved crime has people on alert. >> a violent crime in the middle of downtown d.c. a 28-year-old mother attacked and sexually assaulted in her own car while her baby was in the backseat. >> the the worst thing you can think about. >> police are still going through surveillance cameras and several east this sketch of the man they will be dumped into an unlocked passenger door while the mother was waiting at a red light next to a busy verizon center and at 7:30 last thursday evening. then he pulled out a handgun and a pistol to the mother in the back of the head. >> i always liked everything. it is unfortunate, but it is the cost of modern life. >> she had to drive him 3

and what do lockheed martin the government involved grain and of the washington times have in common they would have you believe nothing but it's a lot more than you might think so what's really behind this secret. bipolar depression doesn't have to consume you here's me and here's my depressed.

even the top public company, lockheed martin, had some layoffs. we will see at happens to these major nes with any federal cuts that areriggered through all of t shutdown talk. but all in all, a goodod year in terms of acquiuiring names, so there was some good news in the midst of all t bad economic news thisear. i think one of thee nicest list is the companies that are the most philanthropic but just evy kind of list you can imagine. we will pick it up more later in the new year. >> we do have acceleration onon january 26 whichll the ceo's from eryone on ththe list are invited. >> truly one the best business events of the year. some uniquee itemsms that you will see -- ladidies, wewe will talk about that more as well. thank you both for joining us, from the bedroom you could see the fire and that work me right up. and it was absolutely terrifying. we got out of there as quickly as we could. i'm watching the house burn up and i'm sitting there saying, there goes everything. these days you don't have to loseour house in a fire to know what it's lik

weapons to do to deploy to the region here's a look at some of the well this is a fighter jet lockheed martin is working on it integrates advanced l. technologies and sensor systems with supersonic speed and then there is this you're looking at a sketch of the most expensive piece of military equipment ever to be created the first of the navy's next generation of aircraft carriers nearly three football fields long weighs more than one hundred thousand tons equipped with two cutting edge nuclear reactors and defense missiles so those are just a couple of the new toys the u.s. is getting ready to unveil above they're not the only ones upping their arsenal let's take a look now what china has in the works this is a g. twenty stealth fighter jet the first of its kind to be developed and tested by china and this is the dongfeng twenty one d. this land based missile is able to hit an aircraft carrier as far as two thousand miles off shore. now with all this new military equipment and this new military vision is a battle of sorts of merging between the two world players and could this be the beginni

they plan to invest more money in cyber security that could ease the blow for contractors like lockheed martinwe will get more details on that. most stocks did end lower on friday. alcoa will report their quarterly results tonight. stock futures are very quiet. president obama is holding a forum that will bring together business leaders who have shifted back here in the united states. walmart wants to help you file your taxes. there will provide free preparations of the simple tax forms. i'm jane king reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. back to you. >> thank you. >> 30 degrees on tv hill. so much ahead on 11 news today. they have face only a mother could love. camels strutting their stuff. would you like to dance? they even competed in a camel beauty contest. that is pretty impressive. >> that campbell had some moves some moves.esls a person was hit will try to move his truck. >> it was a violent weekend in baltimore city. >> and night to remember for all who were there. remember those killed in the tucson shootings. >> we're keeping our eye on hd doppler. tabs on the roads. one problem on 95. we w

the new approach may benefit lockheed martin's advanced satellites. the stock's closing nmixed.d improving jobs data. futures this morning are quiet. the big december jobs report comes out in just a few hours. the jobless rate in baltimore is faring better than the rest of the country, 6.7%. i'm jane king reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. back to you. >> 5:23. 29 degrees on tv hill. many ravens fans are slapping on the full manc manchu. >> to not be surprised to see ravens fans sporting a new look. >> a group of fans came up with the idea for fantasches. these are purple fu manchu mustaches. of the creators is blown away by the success -- and of the creators has been blown away by the success. >> we of gone from cutting mustaches and having them out in about 30 locations. >> the fantasches sell for $5. we want to see your fantasche. this picture comes from dundalk. all you have to go is go to wbaltv.com and click on u local. we will show you some of the morning team sporting those fantasches. they are so much fun. that will get as motivated for the playoffs. >> you should see a doc

. >> bad news for lockheed martin. jane king has the bloomberg business report. she is the birthday girl. happy birthday to you. >> thank you. it is not that big of a deal anymore. that would not have any impact on wall street. hear reports from at&t and under armour. gold prices back in focus. we did hit a six week high yesterday. the federal reserve plans to keep interest rates near record lows for a couple of years. crude oil prices got a boost. ben bernanke late the groundwork for it third round of treasury buying. that depends on whether unemployment remains high. now trading at its best level since may. the pentagon has proposed spending $9.2 billion to buy 29 fighter jets. that is at 13 fewer than previously planned. on panetta is scheduled to outline the proposal today. don't expect a smiling face at the door of walmart. the end of a tradition. greeters working overnight have been reassigned to elsewhere in the store to trim costs. back to you. >> yesterday was mindy's birthday. >> i have to come in here on my birthday. >> jcpenney start getting a new loo

lockheed martin getting even bigger. they just acquired a company that specializes in autopilot another unmanned aerial systems . investors getting quarterly results from a number of companies including goldman sachs this morning. also the latest on inflation from the labor department. bullish reports on the u.s. and german economies. the bloomberg maryland index just a bit higher. i'm jane king for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 6:21. 40 degrees on tv hill. high winds are making driving tricky this morning. >> strong words from the ravens defense. keith mills has more. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. not a lot to talk about this morning. no delays to report. tapping the brakes of the west side outer loop as you make your way past liberty. moving well on the north side. 95 is problem free. 52 and southbound 97. this is the northwest corner. no problems at reisterstown road. v

we'll get quarterly results today for under armour and lockheed martin. ron johnson crews worked at apple and target. he's streamlining sales events at jcpenney. you have heard about tennis elbow. how about ipad neck? users have bad neck and head posture while looking at tablets which can be looked at from all angles as opposed to it desktop which is stationary on a desk. >> right here. >> i see that with carlotta. >> 6;20. 40 degrees on tv hill. >> he was the architect for the ravens defenses for years. who will replace chuck pagano? >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. do you think the ravens' defense can continue to dominate despite the loss of defensive coordinator chuck pagano? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. be careful if you're using your ipad. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> we have an accident on route 22. all lanes remaine

with supporting technology and training to accompany those weapons as well as a contract with lockheed martin to produce a terminal high altitude area defense weapon system for the u.a.e. so that would be the first foreign sale of the system to a foreign country however all this is part of america's efforts to build up missile defense of sims of its middle east allies over the past few years so u.s. is also sold one point seven billion dollars worth of patriot missiles to upgrade saudi arabia's defenses and another nine hundred million of missiles to kuwait to all these weapons deals by the u.s. or the part of a strategic move by our country to slowly build up defense against iran so even though the iraq war is over with appropriately placed quotation marks the u.s. wants to make sure that they are still involved in there is as involved in the region as ever before and in fact we told you a few weeks ago the new york times reported on the expanding not diminishing american presence citing efforts to reposition new combat forces in kuwait and expanding and strengthening our relationships with

these generals retire and so many of them get huge contracts from the defense contractors, the lockheed martinss, itself, i know they are holy men, and we're never supposed to talk about the deloved knights of our republic but these guys at some point are going to hit a jackpot, aren't they? >> we can focus on one of the main characters in my book. general mccrystal since being fired by president obama gets reportedly $60,000 a speech, he is on the board of seemens, jet blue, he is involved in consulting to aol. he has his own consulting group. and god bless him. but it represents the extreme economic benefits one gets after leaving these top posts, and we saw with that amazing "new york times" expose about retired analysts who are being fed information by the pentagon, nobody talked about it then. you know, i mean it's -- the corruption is so thick that the people involved don't even see it. they just think it's business as usual. >> you know, now that he is on the board of aol i'm sure they are thinking of invading yahoo any minute now. but from your reporting we find out what they secretly t

lockheed martin, bowling martin, bowling, the really big defense contractors who saw in 9/11 how the world would change from steel and hardware to conquered the enemy to information and how you move information how it could win the day. they be fasten themselves quickly to serve the purpose. dade -- they did that so effectively they were far ahead of the government to get into the realm at haft killed hundreds of suspected terrorists around the world including countries we're not at war with. those drones could not fly without contractors. built, maintained, operated built, maintained, operated, the information they give is transmitted back all in the hands of contractors. most of them said in the united states the military calls the sanctuary that means it is not on the front lines of the battlefield. the only thing they don't do yet push on the joystick to launch the missile baidu predicts that they will someday because air force pilots would rather be flying the planes. >> ms. rainn success but what kind of precedent does that sets? betamax thank you for the question. interesting.

if you're lockheed martin and you want to lobby the pentagon, you've got to advertise in the washington post, occasionally in the new york times, and in the capitol hill newspapers. smith: right. downie: and so that's a good model for them. it doesn't take away anything from us. it's additional. smith: how about substantively? downie: but substantively i think that this is the ideal, uh, fit between a web-only product and a print and web product, because they're interested in the up-to-the-second scoop. smith: right. downie: and sometimes they're not always concerned about whether it's checked out yet and they can always come back later and say well, it checked out differently. uh, and.um, but by and large it's good stuff and they do some things in greater depth but the real in-depth is going to come from the washington post. and so we're going to do some of the fast stuff too, but what's going to be chris cillizza's take on things more than just the latest, the latest scoop. smith: but you will grant them that they have, uh, a flood the zone, to borrow your old competitor hell raises p

the private companies are some of america's biggest: city bank, coca-cola, lockheed martin and microsofte defense department and tsa are, too. they all have the red, white, and blue setups with recruiters here looking for the best and brightert of. to the side, beyond the -- brightest. off to the side beyond the red, white, and blue, there are coaches meeting with the veterans to figure out what the expertise is that they gained during their service and then they figure out which suits them. if they were a medic, they might send them to the booth of johns hopkins hospital. >> and we're looking for veterans who may have been medics or have a medical experience during their time in the service and because they committed and hardworking, after everything they did for our country, we figured they would -- . >> if they figure out they were struck out and didn't receive a call back, they invited back up to talk to the recruiters or go and learn how to use the online data base and this is trialy an event, a program the president wants. putting veterans back to work and as the secretary of the v

>> i have a certain bias here, because i used to represent lockheed martin in marietta, georgia, which was building the f-22, a really cool aircraft. i would argue a slightly cooler air plan and the f 35. the a 35 is a good plane, but it is a cool air plan. the f-35 is the heart of our strategy for the next 30 years. we have to make it work. we have to recognize how -- my hunch is -- this is a hunch, not uninformed opinion. my hunch is the phase beyond f- 35 is an unmanned vehicle. you are seen the evolution of unmanned vehicles. the f-35 will be a mainstay of delivering ordinance and providing air superiority has at least 30 years. i think we want to make it there. we want to make it a worldwide product. if you look at the f-16 experience, it has been terrific for our industrial base to continuously sell f-16 half a lot of places. -- f-16's a lot of places. i cannot imagine what would fill the vacuum if we cancel the program. there would be nothing there to fill the vacuum. the chinese and russians will not wait to move into next- generation fighter aircraft and next generation surfac

bae systems, lockheed martin, and corporations bank of america, exxon, and goldman sachs. stolen e-mail addresses claim after anonymous claim they stole credit card numbers from stratfor and used the money to make donations to charities over the holidays. >>> bp filed a lawsuit seeking at least $20 billion from halliburton related to the deepwater horizon oil spill. bp wants to be reimbursed for cleaning up the spill, lost profits, and all damages related to the 2010 disaster. the explosion on the deepwater horizon rig killed 11 workers and spilled more than 4 million barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. it sparked several lawsuits and citations against the companies involved. >>> a cold blast is heading our way, and it's already causing a mess in parts of michigan and indiana. plow drivers were out clearing at least three inches of lake effect snow in indiana. the near whiteout conditions forced officials to close parts of interstate 465 in indianapolis. many people pulled out their snow shovels and their snow blowers. >>> this morning you may want to grab your own win

some of them are companies you know, boeing, lockheed martin, but there are some you may have never heard of. when i talk of sierra, nev., a great military producer for decades, but not well known for their work in space. the founder ofbesos, amazon, who is building his capsule and says the first people to go are him and his son. there are various entities that are coming on. this year we will live for the first time, two capsules, dragon to carry cargo and hopefully have crew within the next three-five years. >> our space program was really born out of a perceived international threat. and we remember back in the 1950's was sputnik and launching the space race. now, potentially the only other superpower adversary, china, is embarking on a space program, and your counterpart is the general officer in the chinese army. is that a threat? what are the defense implications of a potential space race? >> this may be controversial, and my director of communications will probably be sweating now, but i do not view the chinese as a threat in terms of space. they are very capable. they have a model

bowing, one of two companies, lockheed martin, the other, invited to bid on south korea's fighter pilot project, as 7.5 billion deal that stock down half a percent. exxonmobil selling a refining operation for $4 billion. u.s. airways report that delta might make a move on it as well as amr, looking at reportedly. that is up 4.5%. kellogg down half a percent. jpmorgan downgrading it from overweight to neutral, disappointing earnings not for two quarters, not for two months but two years. the prying target down from 62 to 48. then nike up 1.5%, touching another all-time high today, finally staples down 4.75%ful now a sell at goldman sachs. bill, back to you. >> thank you, brian. >>> stocks rebounding as we head into the close here. in today's closing bell exchange, senior economics reporter steve liesman is in philadelphia, mysteriously and mandy drury is back at headquarters as well. steve, we have had new data on the state of borrowing and lending and all, looked rather encouraging, didn't it? >> i think the market play is got an small pop from that bill, the market already on the way u

now the drums are being beaten to raze china as a growing menace by the militaristses and the lockheed martin types want to sell. >> guest: right. >> host: what's your take on china? in the book you say we have no conflict with china. >> guest: no, i'll tell you, i was against -- and it was for economic and geostrategic reasons -- i was opposed to, well, i was opposed to the trip to china when mr. nixon was there, what we did, and i didn't like what carter did when we dumped taiwan, and i went into reagan's white house, they called me in there and said, you know, it was a difference in the shanghai communique. so i said, you know, i'm suspicious of china in terms of i do believe the chinese see themselves as replacing the united states. they're going to play the role in the 21st century that america played in the 20th century. i think they see that. and so i think we have been building them up. where'd they get that trillion dollars, ralph? they got it in cash reserves. >> host: walmart. [laughter] >> guest: walmart! but i'm more apprehensive of them. look, we don't want a war with them or a

the pentagon will eventually purchase the scheduled 2400 planes from lockheed martin but some of thelanes will not be bought next year pushing the cost down the road. the emphasis in this budget will be on special operations forces like the navy seals. >> the whole team, the whole land power team is going to be diminished, so next time we go to war we can't just rely on this lilly pad approach if you will to future warfare because we don't have enough boots on the ground to face a substantial enemy and win. >> reporter: it's not unusual for the pentagon to cut the army and the marines after -- at the end of wars. what critics of the budget are saying is that it is unusual to cut the army while you are still fighting a land war, and there are still 89 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now, megyn. megyn: jennifer, thank you. republican presidential hopeful newt gingrich is getting attacked this week for calling himself a reagan conservative. up next we'll ask ronald reagan's own son michael if gingrich deserves this title or not. we told you yesterday about actress demi moore's health c

look behind me, some of the companies here, citibank, coca-cola, lockheed martin, microsoft, the defenseent, the tsa. they have all the red, white and blue booths lining entire huge convention center. there are recruiters here. off to the side when the vets first arrived, they are matched up with a coach, who listens to them, figures out what kind of expertise they got in the service and matches them up with a recruiter. for example somebody in the army, navy, air force or marines, was a medic, they might be sent over to the booth to johns hopkins hospital. >> we're looking for veterans who may have been medics or have some medical experience during their time in the service. because they are committed, hard-working and after everything they have done for our country we just figure they would be great employees for our johns hopkins hospital. >> it is important for the vets to know they come home and have opportunity not just come back home to the duty station or retiring, if they're retiring they can come knowing they have a job waiting for one. >> reporter: martha, you can see a lot of

i visited lockheed martin in denver and seen first hand on their work on orion, our crew model for deep or the economy, we're focusing on the capables for those big missions. american launch capability is going to be better than ever. we're upgrading our kennedy space center in florida, and making it more flexible so it can accommodate a wider range of users and we can win back some of the launch business we lost overseas. kennedy is going to launch the space launch system, our new heavy lift rocket, to carry humans to deep space. at the stennis space center in mississippi, we're test firing components of the rockets, repurposing shuttle engineses and making the most of the work force and infrastructure we already possess to bring this massive project to reality in the coming decade. we envision a rocket capable of multiple missions and varying sizes of payloads so other users beside mass will benefit and the cost will be far less for all. president obama gave us a mission with a capital m to focus own exploration and the crucial research and development that will be required for us to

part of the system was built by lockheed martin. all this information he could compromise.was recruit -- he recruited a woman, initially pretended to be working in import-export trade, he met her and was recruited as a prc agenet. -- agent. paid as much as a million dollars. china does not pay that kind of money except as it relates to china. he maintained contact with this woman even after he left taiwan, and there was some reporting that she had come to the united states to meet him when he was here. he was not assigned here, but the woman was a high-ranking chinese aged to was station and had contact with him. that is un and aerospace confirmed. in april of this year, -- he got u -- that is unconfirmed. in april of this year, he got life in prison. in june, another high-tech case -- prc tasking him for information related to military secrets also. >> i taiwanese software engineer has been sentenced to jail for a year-and-a-half after he was caught spying for the chinese regime. we spoke to one at a time when he's lawmaker who said that the prison sentence is too light --

mobile, lockheed martin, "washington post." of those companies came together and decided we need to do something big for the city. our kids aren't going to college, what can we do about that? so they mobilized their efforts and decided to concentrate on this. we started in 1999, in september. we opened centers in six public high schools, and those centers serve kids running from 9th grade to 12, where they get counseling, advice on how to prepare for college, career choices. and then the following year, we opened in all the dcps high schools, the following 20. and about four years ago, we opened in all the charter schools. so, now we're serving all the charters and all the public schools in this. and really have over the years been able to mobilize private funding just from around the country as well as locally here to support our students. once they graduate in senior year, they roll into our college retention division where we stay with them for five years to help get them out. because as you know, it's much harder to get the

i've seen lockheed martin's work.al to me and more commercial companies developing viable options to orbit makes us more secure as a nation. even if we celebrate the industry's creation of this job creating secondor of the economy, we're focusing on the systems. american launch capability is going to be better than ever. we're upgrading kennedy space center in florida so it can accommodate a wider range of users and we can win back some of the business we have lost overseas. kennedy is going to launch the system to carry humans to deep space. at the space center in mississippi, we're test firing components to robert now to give us a leg up on testing and making the most of the workforce and infrastructure we already pess to bring this massive -- possess to bring this massive project to reality in coming decade. so that other users besides nasa will benefit and the cost will be far less for all. president obama has given us a mission with a capital m to focus again on the big picture of exploration and the crucial rese

i visited lockheed martin in denver and have seen firsthand their work on zero ryan.very real to me and more commercial companies developing a viable options to the low earth orbit makes us more secure as a nation. even as we facilitate industries creation of the brand new job-creating sector of the economy, we are focusing on the capabilities for those big missions to the american launch capability is going to be better than ever. we are upgrading the kennedy space center in florida and making it more flexible so that can accommodate a wide range of users and we can win back some of the business we have lost overseas. kennedy is going to launch the system when our new heavy lift rocket to carry humans to deep space. at the space center in mississippi we're test firing components of the rocket now repurchasing the engines to give a leg up on testing and making the most of the work force and infrastructure we already possess to bring this massive project to reality in the coming decades. we envision an ample bubble rocket capable of multiple types of missions and varyi

both iraq and afghanistan had very little popular support and yet for a handful of corporations, lockheed martin, northrop grumman and halliburton, they were immensely profitable, as lord is for certain tiny segment of the power elite, and always has been. war is a racket. i think that we, unfortunately, have created a world where power has become centralized in the hands of a select group of corporations that are more powerful than the state itself. that it is within the american political system in possible to vote against the interest of goldman sachs. and unless we force that power, we are doomed because corporations, unfettered capitalism, a great book about this in 1944 called the great transformation. turn everything into a commodity. in that sense karl marx was right. unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force. human beings become commodities, the natural world becomes a commodity that you exploit until exhaustion or collapse and that's why the environmental crisis is in a minimally entwined within the economic rise because we don't find a way to break the power of those corporations

part of the system was built by lockheed martin. all this information he could compromise. he was recruit -- he recruit a woman, initially pretend to be working in import-export trade, he met her and was recruited as a prc agenet. -- agent. paid as much as a million dollars. china does not pay that kind of money except as it relates to china. he maintained contact with this woman even after he left taiwan, and there was se reporting that she had come to the unite states to meet him when he was here. he was not assigned here, but the woman was a high-ranking chinese aged to w station and had contact with him. that is un and aerospace confirmed. in april of this year, -he got u -- that is unconfirmed. in april of this year, he got life in prison. in june, another high-tech case -- prc tasking him for information related to military secrets also. >> i taiwanese software engineer has been sentenced to jail for a year-and-a-half after he was caught spying for the chinese regime. we spoke to one a time when he's lawmaker who said that the prison sentence is too light -- one taiwa

>> i have a certain bias here, because i used to represent lockheed martin in marietta, gegia, which cool aircraft. i would gue a slightly cooler air plan and the f 35. the a 35 is a good plane, but it is a cool air plan. the f-35 is the heart of our strategy for the next 30 years. we have to make it work. we have to recognize how -- my hunch is -- this is a hunch, not uninformed opinion. my hunch is the phase beyond f- 35 is an unmanned vehicle. you are seen the evolution of unmanned vehicles. the f-35 will be a mainstay of delivering ordinance and providing air superiority has at least 30 years. i think we want to make it there. we want to make it a worldwide product. if you look at the f-16 experience, it has been terrific for our industrial base to continuously sell f-16 half a lot of places. ---16's a lot of places. i cannot imagine what would fill the vacuum if we cancel the program. there would be nothing there to fill the vacuum. the chinese and russians will not wait to move into next- generation fighter aircraft and next generation surface-to-air missiles. it is a lot more

i have visited lockheed martin in denver and seen firsthand their work on low-eart orion. it all feels very real to me, and more commercial companies developing viable options to low-earth orbit makes us more secure as a nation. even as we facilitate industries creation of this brand-new job creating sector of the economy, we are focusing on the capabilities for those big missions. american launched capability is going to be better than ever. we are upgrading our kennedy space center in florida, and making it more flexible so that it can accommodate a wider range of users. and we can win back some of the lost distance we have lost overseas. kennedy is going to launch the space launch system, our new heavy-lift rocket, to carry humans to deep space. at the space in in mississippi, we are testfiring components on the rocket now. repurchasing shuttle engines to give us a leg up on testing, and making the most of the workforce and infrastructure we already possess to bring this massive project to reality in the coming decade. we envision a rocket cable of multiple types of mis

part of the system was built by lockheed martin. all this information he could compromise. he was recruit -- he recruited a woman, initially pretended to be working in import-export trade, he met her and was recruited as a prc agenet. -- agent. paid as much as a million dollars. china does not pay that kind of money except as it relates to china. he maintained contact with this woman even after he left taiwan, and there was some reporting that she had come to the united states to meet him when he was here. he was not assigned here, but the woman was a high-ranking chinese aged to was station and had contact with him. that is un and aerospace confirmed. in april of this year, -- he got u -- that is unconfirmed. in april of this year, he got life in prison. in june, another high-tech case -- prc tasking him for information related to military secrets also. >> i taiwanese software engineer has been sentenced to jail for a year-and-a-half after he was caught spying for the chinese regime. we spoke to one at a time when he's lawmaker who said that the prison sentence is too ligh